The Sun. — London, England, 1810-05-02 00:00:00

t reed ptit - 0 1 not, 1 14 . e d for 1 4' nerneu t forte,- in I to rende r cohtir' e ; returning d Learned ted, o ° ll# at the P 1 1: w hich ,6t for hi s gilt h is of th ose the it' tY any ° fle ; d e terred rialinal to but an ti ,' of heli ev ;. !siroos 0' of 0 0 wbic h s ol io of nQrneat Aind its punish' at the C \ oll for s bola at pe' t 2nt. tree 10 vY 1 1 ° 3 of big enerar) thus W It WAS , Clt ue befure ngui,ll proper to itS ent to lite or . Whe death Law Ihere had' wish .l but ill-re y the )f the la NS' , )an s :y of been Worn ;cape ren tilc L-• The CRAWtELLOR Of the ItelitilLUSlt defended tll.°Pinioei of t h e S o li c i tor -G enera l , an d contend ed.that the high Law Authorities were not equally , ‘ P&d; as had bee n asserte d by hi s Ri g ht Hohour 40_ole Frie n d. I t was unsupported by the author i ty one -ingle Judge or Magistrate, or the Honour hie Gentleman who brought the subject forward: would have strengthened his own opinions by seat 11.1g that circumsta nce to th e H ouse . H e did no t think the Bill would ha , e a tendency to prevent the commission of the critne ; if he did, he should think it a good Bill. He did not know that there were any reasons for believing that more persons were de= erred froth prosecuting than from committing the ° Tr ffenee by dread of the punishment. His Right 9 0 te friend seemed /t 9 think it a most extravagsnt elea of the SnliCitOG Generars,_ that those likely to .',I reed were as lik e l y to d rea d t h e pun i s h ment , as the Juries who decided on t;esir case, from the dif ference between the mind of a hardened sinner -ad 1. well regulated mind. Was it only the hardened 31 lmer en whom the severity of the punishment could be wished to produce an effect ? Wes it' not equally to be wished that those who were not hard ened might be do erred from committing such of . te nces ? And might not that effect be elipposed to result from the severity of thsepunishment ? The prosecutor and the Juries might be affected by the s everity of the punishment, but, he did not believe the felon would commit are offence from an hdea` that that - circuinst.ince would screen hip from punishment : If such inconveniences' arose from the conduct of prosecutors and Juries, might het the end of the Hon. Gentleman) be answered by lnOte asing the sumsuecessary to constitute a capital o ffe nee• It was easy to bring forward instances of Prosecutorse being unwilling ,to subje& an offender . b/a Punishment so severe ; b u t it was not so easy t ` ° bring forward those instances when persons 'llls rrsed to commit such, an offence had been deterred -a dread of the punishment. Prosecutors were tho se enough to come forward with statements, but who had been tempted to offend would keep their secret for their own sakes. The 1800 cases blentioned to prove the defective state of the law, w ent to establish. its pet feetion, as in all those- cases t 'severity of the sentence had been ameliorated, 444 the appropriate punishment inflicted. This proved at least that the execution of the law was he t so much too severe. It should seem that the severity ;was iri the amendment, as its objet W as not to get rid of severity of putsishment, but merel y of severity of denunciation. Li s htseelleCt of t he Bill would be to make the offence mere fre -Inent's and he cautioned those who might be dis-' 1, r t , ° sed to support it, lest in consequeece it should r`)come necessary to: them egaie to have recourse „ the Legislature, and_not only revive the law; but ut it in execution. Sir S. ROMILLY replied at some length to the im-, I ;.,!ltatin t ns which had been thrown en his conduct. Hon. Gentleman had supposed tie wiehed for the introduction of something like the French Po 4;_ce, and another like the French Revolution, and to en ar?appeal had been - made to his humanity- for ine sake of those millions who might fall in conse- Vence of the supposed changes he might cause. Pe hoped - Gentlemen would net oppose the Bill , r 'ecause-they might &tier from him in sentiment, l`awished thorn to consider what the law is at pre , sent, N e e the proposed arriendments were, and itsofge the Bel from its indi,viduo! merits. It was 1101 ., as had been said,- founded on theory, but on )13 e.Iitee flousrobbing, he kid asserted, had con '. sitlerably ibcreased for some yeas. psst. This 'no ' (3 . ne had thOu i ght 'props! , to deny. lJc could only I mpute this inereese to the circumstance of the law ' l o+ being euforted. It ,had been -said to disprove 1 4 15 : 1 t; that the proseeetor not wishing to caeee the heath of the offender, might .prosecute liim 'fin . a' • 'rhinor offence. kit vA ns not proper that it sresuld thus depeted, upon an ob,cure indisideal whether or 119 t a maq ebonite be tried for his life. In -those Lases where the Hon. Gentleman thoughtopposite 'tie offence the greatest; that of setvantse robbing t neir master, the parties oftenest escepeds He knew instances of that nature. He knew, too that Vries in many cases doubted where no doubt 'Would exist, it they were not averse to pun'.sh with 4rl th excessive rigour. A- year ago, a woman ss as tried at the'Old Bailey for stealing a 101. note from tier master. She had-stolen nothing beside, except tile box in w hi c h it. was inclosed, which was worth out a penny. The Jury conviaed her of stealing I 0 the anpunt of eess and thus sunk the capital part of the'charge: Many similar cases might be found in the recent Session Papers. Juries ought not thins to be led to slight their oaths. Judges had also been thus influenced ; they had frequently carefully Itvoided asking the vedue of things in order to shun the Capital part of the charge. He deniee that t he system had been of so Ibug ,standing as the _ 'l'llicitor-General had asserted it to be. In support of this he cited LOrd Chief Justice Hale. Dr. Paley, to whose authority the SolicitorsGeoeral attached so mutt') importance, spoke el the certainty of: pun ishment as being spore likely to deter men front the ?Plilinission of ottences these severity. He wt shed the laws to have effea, as those who from their ir regularities were most likely to offend might thus be restrained. Tile authority of the Maeherates he h=onsidered to be in his favour, as they had not en 'creeti the law as it stands. He had never said that s•n discretionary power ,should be 'held by the Lades, but he-had said that the power ought-to be ' 2 4 circumscribed as mislit The tiequencysof ex , 'ecutions took away from their effea, and rendered - 'them more cruel. No brae could witness the cere ' I notte of passing sentence of death upen criminals, _ end hear the solemn prayer with which it concludes, leithout being affeaed, were it not considered as be ing an idle form. Non one! tei . ith part of thOse thus Jeetenced to death being aecated, it almoSt doge ferates ihto a solemn mockery. The individuals knowing this, still continued to be buoyed up evith hopes of escaping, each hoping it- will not be his late to suffer, till at length the L fatel 'order ;4r rit'es, and he, ail ehurry, has liele time to prepare , - for - that world into which he is :about to pass.L-Sir. Sallee:A concluded a very energetic speech, defend ing his general conduct, and denying that he had puts.ished his pamphlet merely with a vice.v of gain tug reputation or popularity. • • 'eVdivision tool; place, when the hunibeis Were— 1:(ir the . . Agaitlst it • - - • - 33 ;A - ; tke - —z A 'he Bal I (A - "the inor4. S'sva!ing is St,:ops w?s Own_ ii E. `►J UN. ViLINI \ QUIS DICItfIE FALSUM AUbEAT? L oNDp N, WEDNESDAY, MAY '1, 1 .„, 18-10. Letters from,Paiis statF, that Louis the XVlth, daring the period - lie ,Was in confinement, wrote a history of his own reign, and sent it to Madame 'ADELAIDE, his aunt, at Rome. At his death the ma, ntAcript passed into the possession of her sister, who died at Trieste, and afterwards into the hands of the Countess of NAIII4IVNE, and' her son disposed of it to BUONAPARTE, who, it is slid, means to deposit the Royal Manuscript in the Archives of the Senate, Some doubts, however; are entertained whether be • would not cause it to be published first. The appointment Of Mr. YCOME to the Office of FirSt Lord of the Admiralty has unfortunately ex cited the displeasure. of the Opposition, .and that diSpleasure .has been strongly expressed in the Pa pers devoted to the Party. They are, however, very mach puzzled to find out any plausible abjection to Mr.`YonKE's appointment, except that they per- Sonally do not like him. They express their di •p. probation in terms Very Much like those of the Epi -grans-- I doilot like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, &c. 13 , it as this - mode of reasoning, though Very con- 1 vincing to tlictParty, was not likely to be very sitis- . 1 facao:ry to the Public, it was deemed absolutely ne cesslry tiint somethifig of an übjedion should be btattA, and the one which the leading Paper of the Party has this morning stumbled upon is the most: unfortunate that could have been devised. It is said that Mr. YoAtke ought not to be First Lord of the Admiralty beeause he is a Teller of the Exche quer. We should be very much obliged. to any of the advocates of the late Adminis!ration if they would infur i m us' how it happens ,that it is highly improper• that'a Teller of the Exchequer sl;ould be First Lord of the Admiralty, and yet that it should , have been perfealy consistent with propriety to : appoint the. Auditor of , the Exchequer First Lord, of the Treasury. There .is no connexion whatever .he twcen the offices of Teller of the Exchever and the First Lord of the Admiralty ; but „there is betwt'en the Auditor of the ackquer and the First Lord Of the Treasury : the former cettamly was itl , i,thdeil as a aleck Evian the latter, and yet tOrd OiENVILLt held both offices. together, and the party expressed great arnazeinent that any possible objeaion ,should be Started.to such an arrangement. But then it is said, that the office 'of Teller of the Exchequer is a sinecure; so we 'believe is that of Auditor. We do not, however,. see how this Ob jetEtion. applies. -If the Telh r of the Exche quer had laborious duties to perform; he would be unable to perform those of First Lord Of the Admiralty; .lit the one oifiee being a sine- . . . cure, certainly cannot prevent the holder of 'it from executing the duties Of the other. But this objec- ,tion'comes rather aukwardly, as it appears to us, from the friends of the late Adminisiratioq ; hecanse, if it be good for any thing, it tells directly against them selves. We should esteem it a favour if any of them would inform us what are the dutiei perform ed by the :Chief justice in Eyre South of Trent We believe that office is 'a Sinecure, and yet Mr. T. G4 - ENVILLE field .that office when lid was appointed First LoR.I of the Admiralty There are however, two offences of which Mr. YORI E is stated to have been guilty, which it seems disqualify him for of fice. First, it is said, that he shut the gallery, and endeavoured to keep the people in ign'orance of the prdeeedings on the .Walcheren investigation. To this we answer, that Mr.YORKe did no suit ct thing : he- publicly declared, that his wish was,- not to keep the accounts of the proceedings :from being pub ,but to take care that the accounts that were pUblished should be accurate; and in point of fact, every word. of the examination was laid before the public. The other charge against Mr. Volock is, that he complained of Mr. GALE JONES. I - Wcertainly did; 'but it is also, we believe, true, that there was not a dissenting voice in the House Upon the question; that Mr. JoNEs's.hand-bill" was a libel, and a gross breach . of privilege. II our recolleEtion.do - not fail us, that question was carried nenzine tontradicente. It is then surely straoge that-Mr. YOttice should be accused for complaining of a paper which, in the opinion of every Member is the House was 'a libel and a breach of privi lege.. But if. the making a.complaint of this na ture to the Houie 'of Commons be a disqualin-.. cation for office, bow' i carne thew ‘Genflernen not to start it. as au atje6lion to the appoint ment of Mr. Fox, who at` one period of his life did distinguish himself very much in that way's How came they Overlook the conduct - of Mr. GREY, who had The. Propr;etor_ of a Paper taken into custody for ventuting to.disapprove of his conduct But we bT pirdon, we-shah be acct sed of recrimi- tlfljur el; th,- Ch.;utlyz-well Of havf, a most deeidsd antipathy to that species of political warfare; they conceive that . they ought to liave an unbounded license of attack, but that nothing can be more improper thajr that their opponents should' attempt to retaliate.' We might say much mote . upon this Subjeak, but we shall at present only add, that nothing can afrorda stronger proof of the integi ity of, Mr. , YORKE,'S 'charaaer, than that his opponents, .witht l ail their ingenuity, and all their Irosiility, have only been able to bring forward such charges as those to which we have alluded. Monday morning his MAJESTY and PRINCESSES AuGoblet and SOPHIA, took their morniog airing in Windior Park. They were accompanied. by Earl L WILTON, Generals GWYNNE and FITZROY;CoIOticI TAYLOR,' and Lady THYNNE. . • The Bachelots of Witelsor are making ,great pre parations for the celebration of her MAJESTY'S birth day, .being the let h inst. The great tiring on the - French coast, lately heard: at Dover, was, we understand, in honour of the- , 6000 marriages .vhich took place in consequence of BUONAPARTE'S decree for that purpose, in honour of his own nuptials. Captain PETER PARKER, late of his Majesty's ship Melpomene, is appointed to thqcommand of his Majesty's ship Menelaus, a beautiful new frigate just launched at Plymouth. , Viscount Rtersrots, only son of the Earl of HAnnwicxe, died on Saturday at Cambridge. This Nobleman had the misfortune of losing another son a few years ago, who was drowned at sea. The Right Hon CHARLES YORKE is therefore now pre sumptive heir to the Earldom. BIRTH.—At Rockford; Devonshire, on-Saturday the Bth April, the Lady of S. R. HARSTON, Esq. of a Daughter. Some villains, in the course a last Monday night, broke into the dwelling-house of Admiral - Sir ED ' WARD PELLEW„ at Hampton [louse, near Plymouth, by forcing the window shutter, and stole plate to the amount of upwards of 5 0 01. with which they got off undiscovered.. A reward of 'tool. has been. offered for their apprehension ; and froni some ch.; ediustances, that have transpired, there is reason to hope that the persons concerned wily be appre hended. The following singular circumstance occurred a 'few days ago :--An assistaut in the shop of 'a drug gist in_Bristril, putting up over head a large bottle of wfter, spilt it upon his clothes; and being alarmed, called out to his;cemp swan, w:ho, not aware of the danger, came, with a candle to• see what was the wetter. The 'vapour caught tire, and, in an in stant; he was enveloped in flames. In this situa: tion. he ran into the street, tvitere a gentleman wrap :peel h s great coat round liitlt ; he was considerably scorched in his fitce,..neck, and hateli. A Court of Cominoe - Council ieill be held tns• worFow, and a C9lllllloil Hull on Friday next. A . NAV AL , NE Ws. 1 , 7 "1 'LimouTu; Ai , :10.--Arrivea e Wawa „, .• • frigate and Pheasant sloop of , war froma truize ; also the Nancy and . Carteh from Morlaix; and the Cotnmerce, LitiDERS, from Liverpool. • POiTS:M10117TII, MAY ).---Caine in this da,- Afijesty's ship Lion, fi'ol the Eastward. • - Sailed his MajeAy's ship Part Malign, t‘ith• convoy for Guernsey ;. and his Majesty's ship Ty ricas egi a crtlii2. ,A►rived the Swift, WnsT, from Sunderland; and die Speadatiop, ftum Dartraouili. Cattle into the harbour last evening his Majesty's ship Elizabeth, from Spithead. S2lloshe 17edley, DIXON, for Sundedand. _ Went out of hai bour his Majesty's ship Monarch and Primrose sloop of war to Spithead. CORK, APRIL 25.—Tlie Helena sloop of war, • Captgitt WORTH, h=is captured and brought into Cove the Grand Napoleon, French brig privateer. Cap tain WcatTn;wlpose activity upon 'this suction has been eminently useful to the Irish trade,' fell in with the Grand Napoleon, ,on tlre• 19• It inst. at day-lifght in the morning. He immediately upon discovering her engaged in chase, which he_ maintained until . nine o'clock at night when he came up with her and she struCk. She, Was then' in lat. 48. 10. long. 12. • to. Tlitt privateer mounts twelve eighteen pounders, • and four long-guns, is manned. with one hundred and twer.ty-fotir men, of o hundred and eighty Cons burthen, and but three months old. She sailed from Nasttz on the 13th of Mardi, and has since Cruised with considerable success. From that pe ilod to the day the Helena fell in with her she had Captured :the following vessels : Blockhouse, of Li verpool ; Bill's Marlin, of ditto. ; Fur packet, of Greenoci ; Grey Hound, of New York ; Iris, of ditto ; Aur Sisters,, of ditto. S FIEE ILN ESS, ArtiL 3.o.—Saikd his Iljesty's ship Resolution. ClLl'se down the River Thames leis Majesty's ship Gorgon. MAN t .--Sailed his Majesty's Ship qiudzstadt.with a convoy forGottenburgh. When the next convoy will sail is not yet fixed. • MEAL, ?JAY 1.---Arrived his Majesty's ships St. Georke and alinotaur,, from Portsmouth. hissed the back of the Goodwin Sands his Ma , jesty's ship Vißory for Yarmouth. — I Cinie down from the river, his Majesty's ship Blake and the Exeter East If:alai-Inn. FREACII PAPERS. LEGISLATIVE -BODY. . APRIL 2 .—The following,is an account - of what passed at this Sitting, afier the speech for closing the Sesion was delivered • by the Counsellor of State, and which was given in the SuN of Alopday -last. Count Regnaud read .the following Decree : NIA'POLP.ON, Emperor of the French, &c. the affairs for which the Legislative Body was convoked, being terminated, we have decreed, an:! do decree as follows : Art. I. The'closing of the Session of 18 to, of the. Legislative Body, shall take place on Saturday, April 21. Art. 11. The present Decree shall be carried to the Legislative Body by the Orators of our Council of State, and shall be inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws. (Signed) NAPOLEON. By Order of the Emperor-. The Duke of:B4ss.,NO, Secretary of State. prom the Imperial Palace of Compeigne, April 19, 18so. The President (Count Montesquiou) then spoke as follows :—" Gentlemen( Orators of the Council of State, the testimonies of satisfaelion which his Ma jesty has given to the Legislative Body, are suffi cient for the glorious termination of a session, alrea dy so recommendable by the nature of. our labours, by the stntirnents, we have experienced in prosecut ing them, and by that fortunate event, the happiness and glory of which we now feel."—After alluding to the Penal Code, and other laws, which had engaged the attention of the Legislature, be said— , ." But what interest is now given to our labours by these new pledges of peace, and by this glorious marriage, and its favoarable iii`resages? How many - years of delight and repose are presented' to our', views and our; hopes ! May these hopes be SiiiL farther extended, until the authors 9f these benefits are rendered as dear to all Europe as to this Empire ! • May this alliance, formed for the , happieess of 'so [natty nations, embellish the destinies of , these an gust spouses, and complete the • wishe4 which we love to forni." Having coricluded his speech, the President de r dared that in virtue,of ,the 19111 of April, the Ses- . sion of the Legislative Body had terminated. • _ The Public will please to observe, that the only person in Ottnership with the late Sir J. BRANS COMB, at the time, that Firm, shared- and sold : the Grand Prize of One Thousand Tickets, which pro-duced 24,7651. (in last April Lotteryy I.tai E. EY TON, who i 5 now removed to No. 2; Curniiill, near the Mansion-house. - CORN EXCHANGE, MAN e,tr-,-The Lim - gning - gnp• plies of foreign Wheat to=day are considerable, arid in, this trade sales and quoted at -little fluctuation; • Barley, for second. and interior, dull sale; and rather lower; Malt likewise White Peas dearer, and few at hand; Bearis . of the two kinds fully at last prices ; the supplies of Oats axe somewhat considerable ; second and ordinary arts 'quoted cheaper-; Flour at last prices. brought up and agreed to, and (lie Bill, with amend ments, ordered, to be engrossed, and read a third time to-morrow. The Canal Robbery Bill %vas ordered. to be re committed on Monday next. , The House adjourned at Two O'CLOCK tbiS morning. DUTCH PAPELLS. PAPas, Aknit. 24 ; -=lt is repotted that the Prince of .2:ding will set out in a few days to assikine the command in Spain,' The Ministers have . gOne to Compiegne to hold a council with his Majesty. • - His Majesty the King of Naples has set off for hfs States, where, upon his arrival, events of the highest importance will most probably take place. The latest , advices from Sicily atfilm, that some of the inhabi tants are dejeded in the extreme, and th,it othersen . - tertain apprehensions which are e-rtainly well founded. • It is said that the -English Go , ernment has at length consented to receive the King. of if he should he compelled finally to abandon his do minions. He will, in that case, prOceell, not to Malta, but to England. The island is well supplied with provisions, but •not so with 'artillery and, ath- MULitioll. The English complain of the total inca pacity of the inhabitants for military service, andt he latter complain of the arrogance c,f their guests. Nu merOut reinforcements were anxiously expeaed frotti , Porltigril, to garris . on the various fortresses oOpOsite to the Continent. With this aid, it waS,hoped that . the enemY Might be resisted, or at least Solar as to secure the safety of the EngiMi army. • VIENNA, Arab, 14. Our Court Gazelle contains a formal contraditiion of a 'report.that a Mr. Hoppe had, as Austrian Cl.targ6d'Aft'aireg, notified the mar, riage of the Archouthes§ Matia Louisa, to the -English Secretary of ,Stale for Foreign Affairs.-- " 4 1 Ve are," it says, " authorised. to de fare, that there is no Austrian Chargé d'Affaires in England, nor any other political agent, whip could have made an official 'notification of the marriage, and consequently that' the whole of the article', both in; subslance and detail, is false and unfounded." Ills Irii eii l MajestY gave au audience to Count Otto on the loth, at six o'clock in the evening, at which he delivered a letter - to his Majesty front the Emperor Napoleon, and seven cordons of the legion of honour. His Majesty retained one for and presented another to the Archduke Charles; in tending to distribute'the rest upon a future occasion. A letter from Coristautinople of the -loth - ult. says, " the Grand Seignior means to puthimself at the head of his Asiatic troop's, in whom he'hai greater confidence than those of Europe; , For some time past, he has personally i superintended their exercise. The recent disturbances in Mace 'donia were occasioned by some excesses on the part of the Janissaries, and had no relation whatever to 'political events. Macedonia, in fad, is one of the • prOvinceS that are least, desirous of a revolution.- - Thessily, and the rest of Greece; openlV express, their wishes for a change of,-./overninetat.'; 111 A !I.S. ARP. IV zb —2. Dtitilih, 2 z—; Gotteriburgh, , 1 Li6b . 011 3 t Cadiz, t Watt:rfurd. PRSC Of: .STOCKS • Tills DAY AT TWiLVE O'CLOCK_ Consols - • a;; ; • 1•Z c.d. Aug. - 69;1,1